L40S vs RTX 5000 Ada

RTX 5000 Ada vs L40S

Same Ada generation, datacenter form: the L40S carries 48 GB at 864 GB/s and 350 W. For pure inference throughput the L40S wins; the 5000 Ada wins when 32 GB suffices and its lower panel price matters.

Workload fit

L40S: llm inference up to ~34b, fine-tuning 7b-13b, image and video generation. RTX 5000 Ada: generative ai and mid-size llm work, data science and analytics, rendering and simulation.

Which is cheaper to rent, L40S or RTX 5000 Ada?

By today's published on-demand rates: L40S starts at $0.250/GPU/hr (median $1.39, 48 providers) and RTX 5000 Ada starts at $0.170/GPU/hr (median $0.49, 3 providers). The cheapest live listing is the RTX 5000 Ada at SpotGPUs. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.

L40S or RTX 5000 Ada - which should I rent?

L40S: The L40S is the workhorse of the inference-and-fine-tuning middle: Ada tensor cores with FP8, 48 GB of memory, and a price well below the H100 line. RTX 5000 Ada: The RTX 5000 Ada is the top of the Ada line before the 6000: 32 GB ECC at 576 GB/s, 12,800 CUDA cores, 250 W. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.

Where can I rent L40S and RTX 5000 Ada?

48 providers publish L40S rates and 3 publish RTX 5000 Ada rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.